Classics by the Beach 2026 New Year's Italian-only Edition
The culprit. It all started with James' immaculate 1982 Bertone-spec X1/9. Next there was a Fiat Polski 126 - we won't let a minor geographical technicality spoil our theme - a classic Fiat 500 and Rino's Series 1 Fiat X1/9 making its second consecutive appearance ... . A quick look around the Long Beach car park quite revealed there were enough Fiats, Maseratis, Alfas, Lancias and Ferraris to devote today's coverage of Hobart's regular first-Sunday-of-the-month Classics by The Beach entirely to Italian marques, so that's what we're doing! James hasn't had his fuel-injected X1/9 for long - it's not his first example of the model, though - having bought it in Melbourne in a fully restored state. The paint and bright work are superb, the engine bay is surgically clean and the predominantly leather interior is great nick, too. It's wearing a lovely set of Cromodora CD-16s that set it off perfectly. Being a Polski* Fiat, t...